nazi-looted-art

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-652 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-12-17 GVR Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) choice-of-law federal-preemption holocaust-art-restitution international-law nazi-looted-art sovereign-immunity Whether a California statutory choice-of-law requirement mandating California substantive law in Holocaust artwork recovery cases should result in a G…
24A293 David Cassirer, et al. v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation Ninth Circuit 2024-09-25 Presumed Complete art-restitution california-law choice-of-law foreign-sovereign-immunities-act nazi-looted-art spanish-law Whether a federal court should apply the choice-of-law rules of the forum state to determine the substantive law governing a claim involving a Nazi-lo…
18-1057 Marei von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Amici (3) act-of-state-doctrine art-restitution civil-rights due-process foreign-policy holocaust-assets looted-art nazi-looted-art property-rights sovereign-immunity sovereign-interest Where artworks were forcibly confiscated from their Jewish owner by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, then recovered by the Dutch government after …